In Other Brooklyn News

Brooklyn's elected officials rallied this past weekend to stop gun violence and bring more awareness to the lives tragically cut down in recent memory. New Creations Ministries Inc.

It was a long time coning for Taj Gibson, but this season the 6-foot-9 Brooklyn-born big man finally made it home.

New York City has reached the largest settlement recorded over an inmate's death at the Rikers Island jail complex, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to the family of a 27-year-old transgender woman who died there last year while in solitary confinement.

The battle of 1214 Dean Street commenced on a warm afternoon in early July.

I've lived in Brooklyn my whole life, and that's where I learned how to ride a bike with my best friend when I was 10 years old. We went to the Boys and Girls High School track on Fulton Street.

Bar owners are calling on the state and city to allow them to offer indoor dining. Celene Rosado is just one of many local restaurant owners calling on the governor and the mayor to start allowing indoor dining in the city.

Jabari Brisport, the Democratic Party nominee for State Senate District 25 covering Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Sunset Park, Gowanus, and Park Slope, said this week that he supports a moratorium on public charter schools s

Brooklyn activists, local clergy and elected officials took a stance against gun violence in Flatbush Sunday.

The city should launch an independent investigation of a possible work stoppage by NYPD officers, say a pair of pols from Brooklyn and the Bronx. "Violence, especially gun violence, is heading in the wrong direction.

The family of Brooklyn father and rising rap artist Deshawn Reid are calling for justice two weeks after his unsolved shooting. His mother Hermena Cox told News 12 that Reid was shot in the chest in front of his home on Ocean Avenue.